Tie-bar clip for split switches



(No Model.)

A. A. STROM.

TIE-BAR CLIP POR SPLIT SWITCHES.

' IIa-403,897. Patented May 21 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

AXEL A. STROM, OF AUSTIN, ASSIGNOR TO THE STROM MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TIE-BAR CLIP FOR SIPLIT SWITCHES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 403,897, dated May 21, 1889.

Application tiled February 19, 1889- Serial No. 300,398. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AXEL A. STEOM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Austin, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Tie-Bar Clips for Split Switches, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and yet adequately strong form of the device known technically as a clip,77 and commonly employed by fastening them to the movable rails of railroad-switches as a means for pivotally connecting to the rails the bars employed to tie them together.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate my improvement, Figure l is a perspective view of the clip, and Fig. 2 shows it in a broken sectional View applied to a movable rail of a split switch and pivotally support-ing one end of a tie-bar.

A is the clip of metal and of general U- shape, bent to cause parts q of the arms r forming it to extend, at least at their lower edges, when the device is secured in operative position, in conformity to the bevel of the flange m of the switch-rail, and the remaining portions, g', of the arms to extend downward -beyond and below the rail-flange, and the arms r are joined at their ends, and thus near the part of the clip where it has to stand the greatest strain, and should therefore be strongest by a base, p, which preferably forms an integral partof the arms it connects and braces. If desired, the arms maybe further braced by metal lilling between them above the base.

Openings o are formed in line with each other through the parts q of the arms r to receive a pin, n, which passes through a hole, n', provided in the tie-bar C, which is adj usted in the clip by inserting it therein toward its end-preferably edgewise, as shownand, when the hole n is brought coincident with the openings o, passing the pin n through and securing it. Thus the tie-bar is held in place and has a limited movement at its op p osite ends, (the end of the bar not shown being equipped similarly to the end illustrated,) for the usual well-known purpose.

The clip may be secured to the switch-rail B, either before or after adjusting the tie-rod, by providing it with perforated ears l, eX- tending laterally from the ends of the parts q of the arms r, and bolting it through the ears to the web of the rail, as shown. It is, however, within the spirit of my improve` ment, though the construction illustrated is preferred, to secure the clip to the rail otherwise than through ears, and I do not limit myself to securing it to the web of the rail, as it may also be readily formed to be secured to the rail-flange.

Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A clip, A, for pivotally connecting a tiebar with a switch-rail, of general U shape, substantially in the bent form described, and having a base, p, and lateral openings o above the base to admit the pin for pivotally connecting a tie-bar with it, substantially as described.

2. A clip, A, for pivotally connecting a tiebar with a switch-rail, comprising arms 7' in the bent form described, aifording the parts q and q', a base, p, joining the parts q at their ends, lateral openings o in the arms above the base to admit the pin for pivotally connecting the tie-bar with the clip, and perforated ears Z, extending laterally from the ends of the parts q of the arms, substantially as described.

AXEL A. STROM.

In presence of M. J. BowEEs, J. W. DYRENFORTH. 

